Food Not Bombs thrives even as it faces repression
From InfoShop News: http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20130803135108910 Contributed by: Admin Saturday, August 03 2013 The San Francisco Police Department made history on August 15, 1988 when...
View ArticleThe first rule of fracking is: Don’t talk about fracking
From Grist: http://grist.org/news/the-first-rule-of-fracking-is-dont-talk-about-fracking/ By Claire Thompson 2 Aug 2013 The Hallowich children were just 7 and 10 years old when their family received a...
View ArticleCurrent Political System Incapable of Meeting Social, Economic, Environmental...
From Truth Out: http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17799-five-possible-paths-to-political-economic-change-in-the-era-of-stalemate-stagnation-and-decay By Gar Alperovitz Friday, 02 August 2013 It’s...
View Article36 Senators Introduce Bill Prohibiting Virtually Any New Law Helping Workers
From Think Progress: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/02/2404301/36-senators-introduce-bill-prohibiting-virtually-any-new-federal-law-helping-workers/ By Ian Millhiser on August 2, 2013 More...
View ArticleHow 40 Years of Union-Busting Has Failed America
From Slate: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/02/_40_years_of_union_busting_has_failed_america.html By Matthew Yglesias Posted Friday, Aug. 2, 2013 Henry Blodget says he hates labor unions,...
View ArticleWhy have so many liberals been silent about NSA spying?
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/02/nsa-spying-liberals-presidential-candidates-silent It’s not about Obama or party loyalty. It’s about the reality that public...
View ArticleOffshore…Fracking: Far More Common Than Previously Known
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/03 AP FOIA request shows oil companies use toxic method off California coast Jacob Chamberlain Published on Saturday, August 3, 2013 by...
View ArticleFlaring Lights Up North Dakota
From Climate News Network: http://www.climatenewsnetwork.net/2013/08/flaring-lights-up-north-dakota/ by Kieran Cooke August 2, 2013 North Dakota, now the second-largest oil-producing state in the US,...
View ArticleBlackfish Documentary Exposes Negligence, Corruption in SeaWorld’s Quest for...
From Truth Out: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17851-blackfish-documentary-exposes-negligence-corruption-in-seaworlds-quest-for-profit By Martha Sorren Saturday, 03 August 2013 In 2011, SeaWorld...
View ArticleLarge #Summerheat Action Takes on Chevron Refinery
From Common Dreams: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/08/03-1 Crowd continues to grow at ‘largest greenhouse gas emitter in the state’ Jacob Chamberlain Published on Saturday, August 3, 2013...
View ArticleMonsanto and Friends Pretend to Care
From Reader Supported News: http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/448-farm-and-food-policy/18730-focus-monsanto-and-friends-pretend-to-care By Center for Food Safety, EcoWatch 03 August 13 Andrew...
View ArticleChomsky: America’s Imperial Power Is Showing Real Signs of Decline
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/world/chomsky-americas-imperial-power-showing-real-signs-decline Latin America had long been the reliable “backyard” for the United States—not any more. By Noam...
View ArticleNew York woman visited by police after researching pressure cookers online
From The Guardian UK: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/new-york-police-terrorism-pressure-cooker Long Island resident said her web search history and ‘trying to learn how to cook lentils’...
View ArticleYou May Have ‘Nothing to Hide’ But You Still Have Something to Fear
From The ACLU: http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/you-may-have-nothing-hide-you-still-have-something-fear By Alex Abdo 08/02/2013 This post was first published on MSNBC.com. In the wake of...
View ArticleWall Street Lobbyists Nervous As Cities Use Eminent Domain to Protect Homeowners
From Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/wall-street-lobbyists-nervous_b_3679422.html Peter Dreier 07/30/2013 Usually a community group has to protest in front of a bank, take...
View ArticleThe Great Eviction
From Tom Dispatch: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175731/tomgram%3A_laura_gottesdiener%2C_the_backyard_shock_doctrine/ The Landscape of Wall Street’s Creative Destruction By Laura Gottesdiener August...
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